May 2018 Grant Votes

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the May 2018 round. My apologies for the delay.
There were two proposals this round, but neither submission was approved.
* [Introduction to Application Development with Perl 6](http://news.perlfoundation.org/2018/06/grant-proposal-introduction-to.html)
Voting results: Not approved: 4 no votes, 5 abstentions
The committee is hesitant to fund a book at this time; there are several books on the market today; how would a freshman effort compare
to the already available books?
An alternative suggestion was to break down the work into much smaller deliverables (like articles), and submit a single one
of those as a proposal.
Several members suggested that Perl6 grants focused on the ecosystem (modules) would be more likely to be approved (and we have a recent history of funding core work
on performance).
* [App::rs - The first reference counting CPAN client](http://news.perlfoundation.org/2018/06/grant-proposal-apprs---the-fir.html)
Voting results: Not approved: 6 no votes, 3 abstentions.
Given the number of existing options for installing modules, this project was viewed as having limited community benefits.
Additionally, considered to be difficult to complete correctly, so a higher risk.
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